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Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment
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Foundation date 1 january 2006
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (formerly known as Vivendi Entertainment and Vivendi Visual Entertainment) is an independent film, television, DVD and digital distribution company operating in the United States and Canada. It is also a distribution partner for independent content providers.
The company has provided sales, marketing, and distribution services to studios such as The Weinstein Company, World Wrestling Entertainment, The Jim Henson Company, Salient Media, NFL Films, Shout! Factory, GoodTimes Entertainment, Classic Media, Hallmark Channel, Indomina Releasing, Nasser Entertainment, Event Film, RHI Entertainment, Polychrome Pictures, Sid and Marty Krofft, Eagle Rock Entertainment, Blowtorch Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment, DHX Media, Saban Brands, Saban Entertainment, Palisades Tartan, Palm Pictures, Nelvana, Razor & Tie, Dargaud Media, Pure Flix Entertainment, Codeblack Entertainment, Melee Entertainment, Dimension Extreme and Genius Products.
Vivendi Entertainment was originally a division of Universal Music Group Distribution, which in turn is a subsidiary of Vivendi. On April 3, 2012, it was acquired from them by Gaiam and merged with its home entertainment division, renaming the combined subsidiary Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment. On October 17, 2013, Cinedigm announced it was purchasing Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment for $51.5 million. Cinedigm plans to combine Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment with their existing home video business, New Video. The acquisition closed on October 21, 2013.
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Filmography of Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment (38 films)
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The Orange Thief (2007)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Comedy
In Sicily, a young thief who has nothing sleeps under the stars and steals and sells oranges. Thievery gets him tossed in jail where his cell mate is Turrido, who offers the thief a deal: get Turrido's ex-lover Rosalba to make a recording of her singing and Turrido will give the thief a piece of land of his own.
Paid (2006)
, 1h31Origin Pays-bas
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Anne Charrier, Murilo Benício, Tom Conti, Guy Marchand, Corbin Bernsen, Marie-France Pisier
Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story between Paula Gireaux, a 28-year-old Parisian call girl working in Amsterdam and a hit man, Michel Angelo (30) whose hearts are touched when a six-year-old Bolivian boy abruptly enters their lives. The boy changes their fate. He gives them reason to reach for their dreams and to start a whole new life together.
Seed (2006)
, 1h30Directed by Uwe Boll
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Prison films, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Serial killer films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Will Sanderson, Michael Paré, Ralf Moeller, Jodelle Ferland, Thea Gill, Don S. Davis
As a boy, a reclusive and antisocial Sufferton resident, Max Seed, was disfigured in a school bus crash that killed everyone else involved in it. In 1973, Seed began torturing and murdering people, filming some of his victims starving to death in his locked basement, and ultimately racking up a bodycount of 666. In 1979, Seed is arrested by Detective Matt Bishop in a siege that claims the lives of five of Bishop's fellow officers. Seed is sentenced to death by electric chair, and incarcerated on an island prison, where he is a model inmate, only acting out when he kills three guards who try to rape him.
Get Thrashed (2006)
, 1h40Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Get Thrashed traces the impact of thrash metal. It is the story of the hardest metal music of the 1980s and 1990s as told by the bands who lived it.
Neo Ned (2005)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about racism
Actors Jeremy Lee Renner, Gabrielle Union, Sally Kirkland, Cary Elwes, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Kaye Thomas
The film stars Jeremy Renner as Ned Nelson, a Skinhead who ends up in a mental institution where he meets Rachael (Gabrielle Union), a black woman claiming to be the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. The unlikely couple's hookup leads them down a shocking road to recovery.
New York Doll (2005)
, 1h15Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about religion, Musical films
Actors David Johansen, Bob Geldof, Chrissie Hynde, Iggy Pop
Bob the Butler (2005)
, 1h27Directed by Gary Sinyor
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Tom Green, Brooke Shields, Genevieve Buechner, Rob LaBelle, Valerie Tian, Simon Callow
Bob, a man who can't hold a job, discovers an ad in the Yellow Pages for a butler school. Anne Jamieson (Brooke Shields), a single mother and neat freak, hires Bob as her butler.
The Temptations (miniseries) (1998)
Directed by Allan Arkush
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Charles Malik Whitfield, D.B. Woodside, Terron Brooks, Leon Robinson, Jenifer Lewis, Christian Payton
The story begins in 1958 when Otis Williams, a black teenager living in Detroit, Michigan, is running to meet his friend Elbridge "Al" Bryant at a musical performance by The Cadillacs, where Otis and the singer lock eyes, which he credits as the moment he devoted his life to music. Otis' stepfather Edgar is less than pleased with Otis' plans to become a singer instead of an assembly line worker, but his mother Haze is supportive.